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Styling text in form controls

   

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  <title>Styling text in form controls</title>
  <style type="text/css">
  body { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", verdana, sans-serif;  }
  ol { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
  li { margin: .5em 0; }
  label { float: left; width: 200px; margin-right: 15px; text-align: right; }
  input#submit { margin-left: 215px; }
  input, select, textarea { font-family: inherit; }
  </style>
  
</head>

<body>
  
<form method="post" action="">

  <ol>
    <li>
      <label for="name">Your name</label> 
      <input type="text" id="name" size="35" />
    </li>
    <li>
      <label for="email">Your E-mail address</label> 
      <input type="text" id="email" size="35" />
    </li>
    <li>
      <label for="subject">What's this about?</label> 
      <select id="subject">
        <option value="" selected="selected">-- select --</option>
        <option value="Hello">"hello"</option>
        <option value="Menu Question">menu</option>
        <option value="Catering">catering</option>
        <option value="Complaint">complaint</option>
      </select>
    </li>
    <li>
      <label for="message">Your message</label> 
      <textarea id="message" cols="33" rows="10"></textarea>
    </li>
    <li>
      <input id="submit" type="submit" value="Send It!" />
    </li>
  </ol>

</form>

</body>
</html>

   
    
  








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